Your ShelfYour Projects

The Wrong Learning

13%

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 6, 1916

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 93, No. 33.

Read the full edition

The Wrong Learning

A MAN may know all about the rocks, and his heart remain as hard as they. He may know all about the winds, and be the sport of passions as fierce as they. He may know all about the stars, and be as a meteor, whose end, after a brief and brilliant career, is to be quenched in eternal night.
He may know all about the sea, and his soul resemble its troubled waters, which cannot rest.
A man may know how to rule the elements, yet not know how to rule his own spirit.
He may know how to turn aside the flashing thunderbolt, but not the wrath of God from his own guilty head.
He may have all the knowledge of a Newton, a Laplace, a Watt; he may know many mysteries and understand many hidden things.
But if he has no personal knowledge of the love of God, brought near to sinful men in Christ, what shall it avail?
“What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?” Mark 8:36, 37.— Selected.